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| So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound? Watch the GR Research Tech Talk Tuesday videos on You Tube. In one of them, GRR's Danny Richie discusses all the factors involved in loudspeakers using multiple drivers, both midrange drivers and more importantly the issues created by multiple twe... | |
| Vivaldi, played badly, is the worst classical music on earth Most people use the term Classical for ALL "serious" music, but it is, as has been noted, a particular style and time period in "long hair" music.There are quite a few great recordings of Le Quattro Stagioni, as well as other Vivaldi's composition... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601, I just received notice from Revolution Hall that tickets for the Hiatt/Douglas show are on sale. Not too bad, $45 I think. No mention yet of a cancellation, though the Oregon Governor is implementing some measures.I saw Jerry at Revolut... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report @ghosthouse, Paul Jones was in only the original Manfred Mann line up, the first four albums, I believe. He sang the early hits like "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", and left the band in the middle of '66.Manfred Mann was very different from the other Britis... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? I just saw Iris Dement again, at a nice theater in Portland, The Aladdin. Accompanying herself on piano and acoustic guitar, singing as only she can and does. Like Randy Newman, her piano playing is very New Orleans-influenced (along with her Pent... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report @ghosthouse, I feel lucky to have seen Van perform live when he was still in Them. It was in a small club in San Jose, California, 1967 iirc, though it may have been late '66. He, Stevie Winwood, and Paul Jones (Manfred Mann) were the best singers... | |
| Room Treatment As has already been stated, too much absorption can result in a room sounding dead, lifeless. For those rooms diffusion is a good alternative. GIK's wood 1D diffusers are currently out-of-production, but are available from ATS Acoustics and others... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Yes, the "a" update addressed issues with the ribbon tweeter's x/o (but not the tweeter itself), the "b" the 8" dynamic woofer.. You’ll notice that the LFT (Linear Field Transducer) magnetic-planar driver itself---which handles frequencies 180Hz t... | |
| Zeppelin Prevails.... I assume GK was being facetious However, for those who don’t know and might want to: Dave Edmunds is a Welsh guitar player, singer, and producer, his first loves being Chuck Berry and The Everly Brothers. He was a member of the great early-1980’s ... | |
| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage One limitation of using the tape out jacks is that they are located in the complete pre-amp circuit ahead of not just the volume control, but also the balance and mode (stereo/reverse/mono/left/right) controls. Those controls are the very reason I... | |
| Zeppelin Prevails.... Watch the scene in Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll wherein Keith, Chuck, and the band are rehearsing "Oh, Carol". During each "break" in the song, the guitar plays a part which starts with the strings bent "up" (sharp). Try as he might, Keith just can't... | |
| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage In the 60's/early-70's, the hardest core audiophiles did as Lew just said: take the signal coming out of the tape monitor jacks and use that to feed their power amp, thereby bypassing the line stage. That worked only if the gain provided by a line... | |
| Bose 901 Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall: "Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP Dayton Audio has just introduced a new DSP bass management box, model DSP-LF. Parts Express is selling it REAL cheap: $59.99. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system In the LFT driver, Bruce Thigpen found a solution to many of the shortcomings audiophiles have long considered Maggies to have. It's too bad more of them can't hear the LFT-8b, buying the 1.7i not knowing what they could have for only a few hundre... |